The First Truly International Residential Property Site - the Global Property Guide

If you're looking to buy residential real estate in another country, the Global Property Guide (www.globalpropertyguide.com) created in September 2006, integrates all the information needed by house buyers in 131 countries - a first.

(PRWeb) February 7, 2007 -- Now there's an entirely free web site providing all the information that international residential investors need. People are increasingly buying houses outside their own country. U.S. citizens are buying in the Caribbean and Central America. Britons are buying in Spain, France, and Bulgaria. Asian entrepreneurs are buying in Australia and Canada. Rising house prices are insistent themes of conversations in restaurants in London, and New York, and Paris.

The Global Property Guide (www.globalpropertyguide.com) brings together in one location, at an unprecedentedly high level of theoretical sophistication and knowledge, all the information you need.

If you're a residential investor buying in another country, you'll want to know the difficulties, the likely return on investment, the tax environment, the landlord and tenant law, and about inheritance. This information is now available to you, for almost every country - in a single, comparative, global site. Visit the site when buying abroad, so you won't invest blindly!

Detailed information on 131 countries, and brief information on 85 more:

- Valuation: Is residential property over- or under-valued? Our high-level economics team looks carefully at the numbers to help you decide.

- Buying: Can foreigners buy? How much does the buy/sell process cost? What are the risks? The Guide has the answers.

- Tax: The Global Property Guide (www.globalproprtyguide.com) covers income tax, capital gains tax, and inheritance tax for residential property, in every investible country in the world.

- Inheritance: The complexities of inheritance law and taxation.

- Landlord & Tenant: The world's only global database of landlord and tenant law.

Property, as an asset class, is highly susceptible to booms and busts. Like stock prices (but with markedly different dynamics) property prices eventually come down to earth.

To help you apply valuation yardsticks to property buying that really work is the core aim of the Global Property Guide (www.globalpropertyguide.com). We've taken enormous trouble to generate data.

Want to know how much an apartment in Bratislava, Slovakia, can earn in rental income? The Guide has the answer. Want advice on what works and what doesn't in international property investing? It's here. So too is high-quality research. Check the breaking news and the sophisticated research on our Home Page (www.globalpropertyguide.com).

The Global Property Guide's Fundamental Data:

- Sq. m. Prices

- Average Rentals

- Rental Yields

- Roundtrip Transaction Costs

- Rental Income Tax

- Capital Gains Tax

- Residence (high tax / low tax)

- Price Change 1 year

- Price Change 5 year

- Price Change 10 year

- Tenant Legislation (graded as landlord-friendly)

- GDP per Capita

- Buying Process (graded by quality)

- Economic Freedom

- Economic Freedom 5 Year Growth

- Competitiveness

- Property Rights Index

- Currency Over- or Under-valuation

Taxes and Purchase Costs

The Global Property Guide (www.globalpropertyguide.com) provides the following for every investible country in the world

• The basic legal framework affecting foreigners buying property

• Total transaction costs of property purchases, taking into account all taxes, registry fees, and estate agents' costs

• Rental income taxes, property taxes, capital gains taxes

• Inheritance taxation and law

• The best way to structure a property purchase

• Registry problems and other transaction issues

• Landlord and tenant law

• Rental market practice

• A guide to web-based information, realtor lists

"We do something no-one has ever tried to do before," says Matthew Montagu-Pollock, publisher. "We simply bring you all the data you need, when buying in a foreign country."

"We think it's pretty mind-blowing. You just won't need to ask any more questions - the law, the prices, the buying process, they're all sown up. We can't tell who your neighbors will be, but we can tell you everything else!"

About the Global Property Guide:

The Global Property Guide (www.globalpropertyguide.com) has been in preparation since 2004, and was launched in September 2006. It is owned by Matthew Montagu-Pollock, an economics graduate of Oxford University, and a financial journalist trained at the Euromoney / Institutional Investor group. We produce our own research, and use outside experts and public databases. The Global Property Guide (www.globalpropertyguide.com) has been cited globally by many magazines and newspapers, including The Economist.

Media Contact:

Matthew Montagu-Pollock, Global Property Guide

Tel: (+632) 867 4230

Cell: (+63) 917 321 7073

Skype: propertyguide

Email: publisher[atglobalpropertyguide.com

http://www.globalpropertyguide.com

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